‘We All Have These Thoughts Sometimes’: A conference on Stevie Smith

When:
March 11, 2016 all-day
2016-03-11T00:00:00+00:00
2016-03-12T00:00:00+00:00
Where:
Jesus College, Oxford
Turl St
Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3DQ
UK
Cost:
£50/£30
Contact:

registration for the first one-day conference on poet and novelist Stevie Smith (1902-1971) is now open. The programme and a registration link are available at https://steviesmithconference.wordpress.com/

‘We All Have These Thoughts Sometimes’: A conference on Stevie Smith
Jesus College, Oxford
11 March 2016

Speakers include Dr Will May, Professor Dame Hermione Lee and Dr Frances Spalding. A range of workshops, arts events and exhibitions are included, as well as a closing performance of ‘River Gods’ by Simon Rowland-Jones and Hermione Lee.

Panels are organised around the following themes:
– Life-writing
– Smith and the feminine
– Smith’s drawings
– ‘Borderlines’
– Smith and contemporary politics
– Smith and her contemporaries
– Smith’s voices
– Smith as ‘material’

Please email [email protected] if you encounter any problems registering. Tickets are £50 salaried, £30 students/unsalaried.